The seasonal length divisions are based in theory on the cosine wave math which the client uses to fluctuate temperatures and cycle seasons. I haven't done actual empirical testing. Let me know if it doesn't seem right.

# Any one of these set to true will result in the temperature options not getting used.
# Setting more then one to true will use whichever option comes first, top to bottom.
# false : default setting. This makes the mod use the temperature cosine wave to determine season.
# true : Sets the season to always be that type.
summerAlways=false
fallAlways=false
winterAlways=false
springAlways=false

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Was the google docs tool useful? With that you can test out what happens with different average and delta values.

I really wanted to make it so folks could just put percentages, for example: Sp10%,Su40%,Fa10%,Wi40%, but I couldn't come up with an algorithm to try all possible combinations and choose the one which best fits. At first I tried to set up a OpenOffice tool to test things. I tried both a linear and non-linear solver tools and they didn't find solutions. Although, i'm not familiar with the tool and was probably using it wrong.

It seemed strange to me as only about 50 options for average matter and maybe 40 or delta. 40 * 50 is 2,000 possible combinations and see which one produces the least variations from the players Ideal values.

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Decimals are okay. The values in the client are floats. The only potential bad thing, i belive anyway, is the negative Delta. I put code in the mod to change the delta to 0 if some happens to try a negative for this value.

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While doing so another idea for this mod or another one occurred to me.

A buddy who plays Wurm late at night often finds that because of the way that Wurm time is split up equally into 8 parts he ends up almost always spending a good portion of his playtime in Wurm night when he would really prefer to spend it in daytime instead.

Is there a way to make a mod that turns off nightfall or allows a way to modify the current 3 hour cycle?

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While doing so another idea for this mod or another one occurred to me.

A buddy who plays Wurm late at night often finds that because of the way that Wurm time is split up equally into 8 parts he ends up almost always spending a good portion of his playtime in Wurm night when he would really prefer to spend it in daytime instead.

Is there a way to make a mod that turns off nightfall or allows a way to modify the current 3 hour cycle?

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I tried out the google spread sheet and enterd -20 in the avg. temperature window which means 100% winter which i would love so much.

But i now have 2 problems.

1. i downloaded "seasonsconfiguremod" and after unzipping i found 4 class-files in the "com"-file. All i tried to open but whith word or editor i only have salad of signs, how can i open the files properly(which one needs to be changed ?) and edit the avg. temp. ?

2. what to do then with the edited file ?

A little guide would help the newbies and the stupid. Please.

Edited December 18, 2015 by Sizan

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@Sizan Assuming you have downloaded and installed Ago's client modloader you simply place the archive in the mod folder and do "extract here". You should just see a file "seasonconfiguremod.disabled" and a folder "seasonconfiguremod" which contains "seasonconfiguremod.jar".

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@Sizan Assuming you have downloaded and installed Ago's client modloader you simply place the archive in the mod folder and do "extract here". You should just see a file "seasonconfiguremod.disabled" and a folder "seasonconfiguremod" which contains "seasonconfiguremod.jar".

is it the right one ? Unzipped it and now again..i have some folders, all zipped also, and when i look into them they all contain the same files. there were 2 launcher-files also(one zipped one not) and started them. nothing happened.

I dont know how all people get along with this but i do not. i even do not get this mod loader running(if its the right one ?). Can you give me a link with the right loader ? cause google showed nothing i could do with.

Another question is: can i use this Ago Mod Launcher when playing on the shard of someone else also ? And can i change the season in my client to winter in that case ?

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BTW - If the zip file already contains a seasonconfiguremod.properties file instead of a seasonconfiguremod.disabled file then this is ok. Just change the WinterAlways setting in that file, save it and then restart your wurm client.

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i unzipped the seasonsconfiguremod.7z again as you said and now i got what i should i guess. 2 things were inside: 1 folder named "seasonconfiguremod" and one file named "seasonconfiguremod. disabled"

But they are all within the mod-file actually. changed the ".disabled" to ".enabled" and in this file winterAlways to "true" and checked that all other seasons are to false. Restart of my client showed no change, so i still do something wrong. I will try now to throw the seasonconfiguremod.enabled into the wurmLauncher folder, maybe that helps.

Will edit and tell the result.

Edit: Did not help. And i found another mistake i made: renaming into .enabled instead of .properties . Changed that and put the file back into the mod-folder, but did not help. Then i changed the temperature also to -20, did not help also. Still have green landscape.

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When you installed the client modlauncher did you run the patcher.bat file?

Yes, for a few seconds the black little command-window showed up, then disappeared, that was it.

I will repeat now all the steps you mentioned the post before and edit in here what happened

Edit: WORKS !!!!

Many many thanks for your help ! I have so sweet wurm-memories with winter, the impalong and the first time i played wurm in 2004, the newbie area south of freedom market on indy, it was there former days. And its christmas time so snow is a must here lol. Live in an area with very little snow in winter, that really sucks ! I came from another area of my country to this one, but the area i grew up we had much snow and i remember the happy (and painful) feeling to defrost my blue hands at the oven..snow is AWESOME